History and general information
﻿﻿With miles of beach and coastline, Lincoln County is one of the most popular visitor destinations on the Oregon Coast. Named for President Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln County was created by the Oregon Legislature in 1893. Lincoln County has a very temperate climate and a short, but productive, growing season.

Depoe Bay is known as “the whale watching capital of the world.” Lincoln City offers more than 2,000 hotel, motel and bed and breakfast rooms and resorts, as well as the Siletz Tribe’s Chinook Winds Casino. Newport, known as Oregon’s oceanography research center, features numerous interpretive centers and the Oregon Coast Aquarium, along with a large fishing fleet and working bay front. Siletz is the home of the Administration Center and reservation of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon. Toledo is known as Lincoln County’s industrial center. Waldport features the Alsea Bay Interpretive Center. Yachats is known as the “Gem of the Oregon Coast.”